False positive
An alert that looks suspicious automatically but turns out to be harmless.
Learn it through a story
- Ananya Didi's SOC Shift (Cybersecurity for Juniors 2, Ch 7)
Related terms
- Excessive agency An AI agent having more permission or capability than its task actually requires.
- Excessive data exposure An API returning more fields than the client actually needs, relying on the client to filter.
- Expiry (exp) The field declaring when a token should stop being valid.
- Finding chain Combining several smaller weaknesses into one larger, more serious exploit path.
- Firmware The built-in software that runs a device, updated by the manufacturer to fix bugs and flaws.
- Flat network A network with no internal boundaries, where most things can reach most other things.